Being Alive

What does it really mean to be alive? Is it taking your first steps, riding your first bike, or experiencing your first kiss? Is it feeling pain for the first time or breaking someone else's heart for the first time? Now you may wonder why I am using the word "first" so much, but to me, thats what being alive is. Life is full of firsts. Things that are not alive only have one first or maybe even no firsts. A lamp only has one first household that it sits in. Humans experience firsts almost everyday even if they don't realize it. That is how I know I'm alive.